Top Ten Habits Of Highly Successful Booklet Authors

Have you ever wondered just what really makes a booklet author successful?  The authors who are at the top have developed some habits that have helped them to cultivate their prosperity.  Follow their lead and incorporate their habits into your own booklet adventure and you too will be successful!

Here are the top ten habits of highly successful booklet authors:

1) Be a doer, not a talker or a wisher.  The doing creates success.

2) Face your fear. Fear can stop you cold only if you let it.  If something creates anxiety or fear for you, do it anyway.  Often you’ll find that once you have accomplished the thing you were afraid to do, you’ll feel empowered and the fear will be gone.

3) Do at least one thing every day to further your business. Send a letter, make a call, mail a sample.  Just doing one thing every day means by the end of the month, if you work five days a week, you will have done 20 things that month to get your business ahead, get your name out there, and make money!

4) Have set work hours. Sure, you can take a long lunch if you really need to, but if you don’t know when you are going to work you’ll find the work doesn’t get done.  Set your work hours and stick to them!

5) Keep interruptions at a minimum. This means letting friends and family know the hours you’re working, and the hours you’re available for them.  It may also mean turning off your cell phone and unplugging your home phone.

6) Discipline yourself to use your time wisely. If you’re writing on the computer, don’t fall into the internet trap.  A moment of surfing or even research can easily turn into an hour or more.  If you need to research online, have a set time for doing so and stick to research until the time is up.

7) Make a list of what you need to accomplish each day. Your list is like a map.  Without it you won’t know where you’re going and you’ll find that very little actually gets done.  Prioritize your list and put the most important things at the top.  That way, you’ll always get the important things done even if you don’t accomplish everything on your list.

Take time to plan and create new goals.  When you accomplish a goal, you need a new to one to strive for in order to reach new heights of success.

9) Know what you want. If you don’t know what you want, you won’t know how to plan or what goals to strive for.  You need to know what you want in your business and your life.  What kind of lifestyle do you want to live?  How much money do you want to make?  How big do you want your business to be?  Knowing what you want will define your terms of what success is for you.

10) Give your audience what they want. You can do everything else on this list and still fail if your audience isn’t interested in your booklet.  Make sure your booklet fills a need or want with the information it provides.

To your riches!

Kim

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This Mistake Will Cost You Time And Money – Are You Guilty Of Making It?

Your work time is important.  You need time to think about what to write, and time to actually write.  You need time to come up with production ideas, and time to talk with prospective buyers.  In essence, You need time to run your booklet business, and you can’t do it when you’re constantly interrupted – either by your own doing or by those around you.

Plan Your Work Time

From the very start of your booklet adventure, you must decide when you will work. It’s ok to start part time.  You might choose to only work an hour each day, five days a week in the beginning.  Or, you might choose to work eight hours a day five days a week, working full time.  Either way is fine, and so is anything in between.

Choosing the days and hours you will work helps you to define how your day will look.  When you know that you will be working Monday through Friday from 9am to noon, you know that you won’t be available for anything else during that time.  This allows you to plan your time so that you can get your work done.  It also allows you to plan your fun, or other things outside of work that you want or need to do.

As the sole owner of your booklet business you probably work from home, and one of the main problems with that is that most people who attempt self employment from home don’t know how to structure or plan their day so that it is productive. This is why so many businesses fail and so many business owners go back to their old job working for someone else.

Stick To Your Plan

Once you know what days and hours you will work, you must stick to your plan and actually work.  Work time doesn’t mean that you talk to your friends on the phone, surf the internet or get in touch with your Facebook friends.  These kinds of activities suck the productive time out of you like a vampire sucking blood.  Spending your time on these activities instead of working shifts your focus, making it more difficult for you to get your work done even if you want to get back to it.

Save all your non-work activities for your off hours.  Use your working hours for building your business and your future.  Whenever you’re tempted to do something during your work hours that is not a work related activity, just imagine that activity costing you money – because it is! You just don’t realize it.

How To Curtail Outside Interruptions

Sometimes, in spite of your best efforts, you will be interrupted by others when you’re working.  Interruptions cost you time and make it difficult to get back on track.  One study showed that it takes the average person 20 minutes to pick up where they left off after an interruption occurred.  That’s 20 minutes lost forever, plus the time the actual interruption took! If you’re working part time, that really cuts into your day and sucks up your productivity!

People who interrupt your productivity need to know exactly when your working hours are, and when it’s ok to talk with you or call you.  Your friends and family don’t mean to interrupt.  They just don’t know what your working parameters are.  They may think that because you’re at home, you’re available.  They don’t realize that you need time simply to concentrate on what you’re doing. After all, you’re at home.  You can do as you please.  This means they think they can talk to you now and you can work later.  It’s up to you to tell them that you can’t, and why.

Being constantly interrupted is not only frustrating, it’s non-productive and costs you time and money.  Don’t make the mistake of allowing yourself or others to interrupt your work time except in the case of a true emergency.  Choose your working hours and then guard them carefully.  Your riches depend on it!

To your riches,

Kim

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What Will Your Booklet Business Be When It Grows Up?

When you decide to create your first booklet, your focus is very narrow.  You think about the writing, the finished copies and the sales.  You imagine the checks coming in.  And that’s good, but if you can widen your focus even just a little and try to see beyond that first booklet, you just might catch a glimpse of a future that is far richer than you ever could have dreamed.

Where Do You Want To Be 12 Months From Now?

If you’re just beginning your first booklet, you’ve got an advantage.  You have the opportunity to start from scratch and build your business from the ground up to be exactly the way you want it to be.

But, even if you’re working on your 10th booklet, you can still look ahead and make decisions for what you really want to do and where you really want your business to be in the next 12 months or the next three to five years.

Most people don’t give much thought to what they really want.  They go to a mundane, boring job day after day so they can keep food on the table and pay their rent, or mortgage, and their bills.  That is their life and they’ve accepted it and made their peace with it.  But, that doesn’t have to be your existence if you don’t want it to be.

How NOT To Get Caught Up In The Daily Grind

Any business, even a booklet business, can become a mundane existence if you only concentrate on the work in front of you. You must take some time to think about your future and the future of your business.  You must take time to plan and make goals for yourself so that you’re constantly striving to achieve something.

When you have no goals to work toward, you get caught up in the daily grind and it becomes monotonous.  Goals create excitement and passion.  They keep you going.  And it isn’t because of the thrill of achieving them, although it is a good feeling to accomplish something you set out to do.  It’s because they bring rewards with them when they are met.

When you take time to think about your future and make plans and create goals, you are building the kind of business and future that you want.  It isn’t left up to chance.  You are in the drivers seat, and you decide where you want to go.

You must be an active participant in planning your future and the future of your booklet business. You must decide what you want.  When you do, you’ll achieve your goals and have what you desire.  But, if you don’t, you’ll simply go from day to day, dealing with whatever comes up.  It will be a never ending grind because you won’t feel like you’re working toward something.

So, What Will Your Business Be When It Grows Up?

Make some time to plan today.  Don’t wait.  If you do you’re putting your future and your dreams on hold.  Think about your writing and your business.  Maybe you haven’t even thought of writing a booklet as a business, but it is.

Your booklet is your product.  Since you’ll be selling that product for profit, you have a business.  Define its parameters today. How big do you want it to become?  Do you want to create just one booklet and build your business around it?  Or do you want to create many booklets?  Will you only sell booklets or will you create other products too?  Will you work from home, or do you see yourself in an office long term?

And, while you’re at it, think about what you want from your business for yourself.  The whole reason of being in business for yourself in the first place is to achieve your dreams. If you can’t do that, then you might as well be trading hours for dollars in some dismal, gray cubical somewhere.

So, what do you want?  Yes, more money, but how much more?  $10,000 a year?  $50,000?  $200,000?  A million or more?  Don’t be afraid to dream big.  Go for it!  Decide what you want.  Once you do, then ask yourself what kind of business you need to build to achieve that goal.

You truly can have whatever you want.  Just figure out what you want, plan and create the goals you need to get there, and then get started and watch your business grow!

To your riches!

Kim

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Why Your Riches Don’t Depend On Your Product Or Your Marketing

The most important aspect of your booklet business, which is absolutely crucial to your success, is how you deal with your customers.  If your customers do not feel that they are important to you, or if they feel you have treated them unfairly, they won’t come back. Today I’m going to use an experience I had over the weekend to illustrate just how important this is.

The Perfect Cami – And It’s On Sale!

While out shopping I came across a camisole I absolutely loved.  It was a unique item, something I wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else.  And just to tempt me further, it was on sale.  But, the store didn’t have my size.  All they had left was an extra large.  Still, I tried it on hoping it would run small.  It didn’t.

I asked a sales clerk if they had anymore sizes in the back somewhere.  She told me they didn’t, that this item had been on sale for a while and they weren’t planning to get anymore.  Knowing the store had a website, I decided to order online.

Making Your Customer Mad Is Easier Than You Think

As it turned out, the company website did have the camisole in my size.  And, not only was it on sale, but the website offered an additional 15% discount which would help defray the cost of shipping.

I decided to order three of the camisoles.  I put them in my shopping cart, and then I minimized that window and opened a new one to do a little online browsing in another store.

I returned to the shopping cart to make my purchase about 45 minutes later.  To my horror, the price for the camisole had changed, and I was unable to find the 15% off promo code anywhere on the website.

I wanted the camisoles, but I wasn’t willing to pay the higher price and I didn’t understand why the price had gone up while I was browsing for a short time on another website.

I attempted over and over again to get my browser to take me back to a page I visited earlier on the website, in hopes that the shopping cart price would change.  It didn’t.

At this point, most people would have either payed the higher price or left the website without making a purchase.  Being that I was very angry and frustrated by this time, I almost did the latter.  But, since I really did want the camisole I decided to call customer service.

Customer Service To The Rescue

Customer service at this company is not excellent.  I told the lady on the other end of the line that I was angry and I explained the situation.  Just telling her that I was angry should have made her want to difuse my anger immediately and help me any way she could. But, she apparently hadn’t been trained by her company in how to handle an angry customer.  Instead, she made excuses for her company and what had happened.

I was told that the promotion and the sale price ended that day.  I had been aware of this, but it was only about 9:05pm my time when I tried to put the order through.  I was then told that they used eastern time, which meant that 9pm my time was midnight back east, and therefore the sale actually ended at 9pm my time.  The lady said she didn’t think “they” would over-ride the higher price since the promotion had now ended.

The lady said they have a new promotion – the more you buy the more you save.  I told her I wasn’t interested in the new promotion, and that if I couldn’t get the original deal I had anticipated that I would not make the purchase.  The lady put me on hold to check with her superior to see what they could do.

When the lady returned, she told me that they had decided to honor the sale price and give me the 15% discount besides.  A very smart move on their part, I’d say, given that they saved a customer and their company name being smeared all over the internet.

Never Underestimate The Power Of Your Customers

So what are the lessons in all of this?  There are many.

First and foremost, if you’re going to change your prices at a specific date and time, make sure your customers are aware of this.  I told the customer service lady that they should have had that information on their website in big red letters, and perhaps have a timer that’s ticking down the seconds and minutes right next to the letters so people would see it and know how much time they had left to place their order and get the special pricing.

Second, when a customer has a problem, don’t make excuses.  Diffuse their anger by telling them you’ll do whatever you can to make the situation right and solve their problem.

Third, without customers you have no business.  You not only want satisfied customers, you want customers that are so overjoyed with your service and your product that they’ll recommend you to other people they know.

Fourth, things are not the way they used to be.  No longer does the customer complain to just a handful of people they know.  With the internet, customers can complain to thousands or even millions of people.  The customer has power today through social networking sites.  They can reach alot of other potential customers and warn them to stay away.

Fifth, even if you think the customer’s purchase is a little one and therefore doesn’t really matter, you can’t know what they might buy from you down the road.  The three cami’s were a small purchase, but I had my eye on a very nice wool coat that I planned to pick up in the next week.  Had customer service not honored their sale price and discount for me, they would not only have lost the small sale of the cami’s, but also the larger sale of the coat as well as any future purchases from me.

Your money doesn’t come from all your efforts with your product – the writing and production of your booklet.  It doesn’t even really come from your marketing efforts.  Your money comes from your customers. Period.  Make them happy and your business (and your riches) will grow.  Don’t and you’ll be out of business.

To your riches!

Kim

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Think Big And You’ll Get Big Results

Some people are small thinkers.  They have few goals, and the ones they have are easily achieved.  They live day to day and don’t think too much about tomorrow.  In short, their lives are fairly uneventful and monotonous.  And, that’s ok as long as they’re happy.

But, small thinking is not for you.  If it were you wouldn’t be reading this blog.  You want something more, something better than average.  And, you can have it if you’re willing to think big enough.

Donald Trump – A Great Role Model For Thinking Big

Donald Trump is a big thinker.  He’s assertive and he gets things done.  He is a man with a passion for his goals, and his goals are big.  He works hard daily to achieve his goals, and he never gives up.  He’s a great role model for thinking big – especially when you’re building a business.

Like everyone, Donald has had his trials.  At one point he was very deep in debt and he nearly lost everything.  But, As dismal as things looked, Donald never lost his ability to think big.  Because of this he not only recovered from that major financial set-back, but he went on to thrive like never before.

Thinking big is not an option for Donald Trump.  It’s part of his nature.  The more you think big, the more it will become part of your nature too.

The Beginning Of Great Things

Thinking big sets you apart from the average Joe.  This, in turn, sets apart your business from the rest.  It makes others take notice, and this is very good for business!

Thinking big means you go for the gusto.  It means you have a very large vision of what you want your booklet business to be, and you believe that you can turn that vision into reality.

Have you ever heard that phrase that says it’s better to aim too high and miss than too low and hit?  Thinking big is aiming high.  It’s the beginning of great things.

What Do You Really Want?

Thinking big is only the beginning.  You can’t have big results without taking action.  Action is what takes your thoughts and dreams and turns them into reality.  But, your actions will be based on your thoughts.  Small thoughts lead to small actions and thus, small things achieved.  Thinking big will produce bigger actions and therefore, bigger things achieved.

Big results begin with big thoughts.  Don’t hold yourself back.  Ask yourself what you really want and don’t be afraid to think big!  Your booklet business can be whatever you want it to be – something big or something small.  But, if you’re going to do it, why not do it big?

To your riches!

Kim

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Five Tips To Help You Achieve Your Goals In Your Booklet Business

When it comes to your booklet business, you don’t want to be busy.  You want to be productive.  You want your time to be spent moving you and your business forward.  Here are five tips to help you be more productive so you can achieve your goals.

1)  Establish your business hours and stick to them. This not only helps you be more productive because you know which hours during the day you’ll devote to your business, it also lets your customers know when they can reach you.

2)  Let your friends and family know you’ll be unavailable during business hours. Your friends and family need to know that your business is something you take seriously.  Telling them you won’t be available during your working hours (except in case of emergency) will help them to respect your business and your time.

3)  Make a list of what needs to be done each day. Without a list, you will find yourself doing a little of this and a little of that, but not really accomplishing anything.  Create a list the night before of what you need to do the next day.  Start with the most important thing that you absolutely must get done, and work your way down to the non-essential things.  You’ll find that the most important stuff always gets done, and often the non-essential things will be carried over to the next day.  That’s ok.  Eventually the non-essential things will become more important and they’ll be moved to the top of your list.

4)  Begin your day with your telephone. You should start your day by making any important calls you need to make.  This gets them out of the way.  Also, you’ve got a better chance of reaching people first thing in the morning than you do half way through the day.

5)  End your day with your computer. Save your email and other computer related activities for late in the afternoon or at least after lunch.  Try not to check your email more than once per day.  It’s just too tempting to answer email as it comes in, thus draining your productive working time.

To your riches,

Kim

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How To Deal With Life’s Stuff So That You Aren’t Distracted From Your Work

Life is like a roller coaster.  It has it’s ups and downs.  Some days you might feel like you’re on top of the world, and other days you might feel like you’re in such a low valley you’ll never be able to climb out.  But, no matter how you feel, you must remember you still have a booklet business to run.  You must never allow your feelings to get in the way of your goals.

How can you do this?  How can you work on your new manuscript, or call that executive who is interested in a quantity purchase, or fill those orders that came in today when you’re feeling so down and out that you just want to curl up in bed and go to sleep?  Or when you’re so excited that you just want to burst and you can’t concentrate on anything?

Here are five ways you can use to deal with the stuff life throws at you so you can be more productive in your writing and your business.

1)  Take a brisk walk. Walking helps you burn off some energy.  It helps to calm you.  If you talk to that executive and he places a very large order, you may be so excited you just can’t concentrate on getting the rest of your work done.  You need to burn off that energy so you can go back to work.

Walking also helps to calm you when you feel down.  It gives you time to think, and to focus on the solution to the problem.

2)  Call a friend. Ok, you know you shouldn’t be talking to friends during your working hours.  But, when you are just so emotional you can’t work anyway, talking to a friend can help you release that emotion so you can focus on your work again and do what needs to be done.

3)  Search online for a solution. Sometimes it helps to read what others have written who are in the same situation.  You can read articles, blog posts, or even join an online group to find the answers you need.

4)  Engage in a relaxing activity. When you’re wound up too tight, no matter which way, you need to relax.  It’s time to go to the bookstore to browse a little and maybe have some coffee.  Or, do some exercise or go for a swim.  Maybe a hot bath and some music will help.

5)  Set a certain amount of time aside to think about it, and when the time is up go back to work. You can’t ignore your feelings, but you can’t allow them to interfere with your work either.  If they do, they’ll end up interfering with your life and you’ll never reach the goals you have set for yourself.  So, give yourself some time to feel the way you do – to think about things – and then, when time’s up go back to work.

To your riches!

Kim

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The Secret To Having A Prosperous Booklet Business And A Rich Life

One of the pitfalls of being a booklet author who is in charge of everything related to your product and your business is that it can be tempting to do everything yourself.  This is your creation, your product and your business and in order to make it work, you may feel you must have total control.  And the only way to have total control is to do it all yourself.

This mindset can actually stagnate your business and your booklet sales, keeping your from reaching your goals.

Building A Strong Business

Nobody can do it all.  We all have different strengths and weaknesses.  When you play up your strengths, your business wins.  But, if you add all your weaknesses in there too, your business will suffer.

The best thing you can do is to take care of those things you do well, and get someone else to do the things you don’t do well.  This way, every area of your business will be filled by someone who is strongly equipped to handle the job.

For example, you may be a fantastic writer who is able to easily express ideas and concepts, but you may be a terrible grammarian.  The solution to this is simple.  Hire an editor.  This gives your business strength and it makes your product better.

Avoiding Burnout

Another reason why doing it all yourself is a bad idea is that it causes burnout.  You begin your booklet adventure excited about creating something, and then somewhere along the way you become frustrated.

Things seem to be taking longer than you anticipated due to your lack of skill in a certain area, or you just can’t seem to get the design quite right.  So, after struggling for some time, you decide to throw in the towel on your project and it sits until you can regain your perspective.

This scenario is easily avoided when you get the help you need in the areas where you lack the skill or expertise to handle the job properly on your own.

Enjoying Your Business And Your Life

Your goal with your business is to have a vehicle that can help you live the lifestyle you desire – not to be a slave to your business, doing everything that must be done and having no time to enjoy other things.

It isn’t always easy handing your booklet project over to someone else to do their part.  In fact, it can be a nerve wracking process – especially when you want to feel in control and you’re handing it over for the very first time.  But, you must be big enough to admit when you’re not qualified to handle something, either because you lack the skill, the interest, or the time.

Your admission to yourself of your inability to handle every aspect of your business will strengthen your business, improve your booklets, and give you the time you need to work on those things you can do well, as well as giving you time away from your business to enjoy your life.

It’s not always easy giving up control of your business or your booklet project in the areas where you are weak.  But, in the end, it is so worth it!  It’s the secret to having a prosperous business and a rich life.  And a rich life is really the best thing of all.

To your riches!

Kim

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Why The Way You Answer The Question “What Do You Do?” Is So Important

When you are asked the question, “What do you do?”  how do you answer?  Do you tell people about your day job and casually mention your booklet?  Do you tell them you’re retired and leave it at that?  The answer you give is more important than you might think.

Are You Hiding Your Talent?

Many writers don’t tell anyone that they write.  It’s a deep, hidden secret they keep to themselves.  Perhaps it’s because most people don’t like to write and so the writer feels they wouldn’t be able to relate.

Writing is a special gift.  It’s a talent, just like dancing or singing.  It needs to be nurtured and cultivated, but if the desire is there so is the gift.

Writing is a profession you can be proud to be a part of.  The general public views writers with high esteem.  Just because someone else isn’t a writer, that doesn’t mean they can’t appreciate the fact that you are.

Writer Or Author – Which One Are You?

As much as the public regards writers with high esteem, they regard authors with even more.  To be an author in our society today is to be a celebrity, even if you’re not famous.

When you tell people that you’re an author, it tells them that you’ve accomplished something great – something they could not do.  It commands respect.

Being a writer is good, but being an author is better.  Just using the word author automatically gives you more clout and credibility in most people’s eyes.

Go Ahead – You’re Entitled

Some booklet authors are afraid to use the word author because they haven’t written a full length book.  They’re concerned about giving people ‘the wrong idea’ about them or their work.

If you’ve created a booklet you are an author and you are entitled to call yourself one just as much as anyone else who has created any kind of publication.  In fact, your status as an author is in no way diminished in the eyes of the public simply because you’ve created a booklet rather than a book.  People are just as intrigued – often more so.  Everyone knows that authors write books, but you’re different.  You write booklets.  That makes people want to know more.

When you tell people you’re an author, you’re not only telling them what you do, you’re also reaffirming it to yourself.  You’re reinforcing the idea in your own mind that yes, you are an author.  The more that concept is reinforced, the more it becomes a belief for you, and the more you believe it, the more you will live it.  It becomes a part of you.  This is why your answer to the question, “What do you do?” is so important.

So, now when someone asks you what you do, how will you answer?  Will you tell them you’re retired?  Will you tell them about your day job?  Or, will you look them in the eye, holding your head high, and proudly state, “I am an author!”

To your riches,

Kim

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Five Ways To Avoid Burnout So You Can Go From Success To Success To Success

You begin your booklet journey with high expectations and tons of enthusiasm.  Your booklet and your new little business consumes you.  It’s all you can think about.  You put every waking moment that you can into your new venture, and you begin to reach your goals.  You achieve success.  And then, it happens.

Suddenly, you don’t have the same enthusiasm you did as when you started.  You find yourself slacking off.  You’re not as on top of things as you should be.  And the worst part is that you don’t really care.  This is burnout, and if you’re not careful you’ll find it happening to you.  Once it does, it can be difficult to get yourself back on track.

Here are some ideas to help you avoid burnout so you can go from success to sucess to success!

1)  Pace yourself. Don’t try to do everything at once.  Rome wasn’t built in a day, and your booklet business won’t be either.  Do what you can each day, and before long your business will be booming!

2)  Take short breaks. Even 15 minutes away from your work will help to renew your mind.  Get up and stretch.  Get a glass of water or a cup of coffee or tea.  Take a short walk.  Breathe!

3)  Define your working hours and stick to them. When you own the business and you run it from home, it can be difficult to quit for the day because you are constantly reminded of your work.  By defining your working hours you’ll be mentally prepared to stop for the day and do something else.  Also, your family and friends will know when they can spend time with you or call you.

4)  Go out to lunch once in a while. This is a great way to re-group, and it makes you feel like an important executive – which you are!  You’re the top dog at your company!

5)  Create a life outside of your business. Your work should not be your life.  The goal for your business is to help you live the kind of life you want to live.  Your business is important, but not as important as living your life.  Spend time with family, friends, and doing other things you enjoy.  Take a little time off now and then too.  After all, isn’t this why you wanted to create a booklet in the first place?

Got an idea you would like to add?  Your comments are always welcome!

To your riches!

Kim

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